The first fully detailed, complete account in English of the fiction and films of France's best-known and most controversial woman writer. Leslie Hill throws new light on Duras' relation with feminism, sexuality and psychoanalysis.

Leslie Hill is Lecturer in French Studies at the University of Warwick.

Chapter 1 Images of Authorship; Chapter 2 Transferential Loves; Chapter 3 Scenes of Desire; Chapter 4 Crossing Genres; Chapter 5 The Limits of Fiction; Chapter 6 Writing Sexual Relations;